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Title: Er, How Good of an Idea is this Really?
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Published: Mar 16, 2007
Author: nuts
Post Date: 2007-03-16 22:37:51 by tom007
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A Buddhist monk plays with a tiger at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, 120 km (74 miles) northwest of Bangkok in this April 17, 2006 file photo. The Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno, or Tiger Temple, is a petting zoo with a difference.Tourists are flocking to the temple northwest of Bangkok to pet, and even cuddle, the great striped beasts. They can also have their pictures taken with each tiger to prove their bravery. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang/Files 
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#1. To: All, diana, robin, christine, zipporah, tommythemadartist, lodwick, aristeides, (#0)
I mean dang - look at the size of those paws, look at the size of their faces. Years ago DW and I stopped in a place that had a mountian lion as some kinda pet, and she was utterly entranced by the beast. She and I and the handler went in and she was petting the killing machine like it was a teddy bear. I was so glad to get the freeky heck out of that cage with my wife intact... BUT that was a kitten compared to these monsters. Very Beautiful Monsters.
Nice kitties. bump
If your dog was suddenly ten times his normal size he would still sleep at the foot of your bed, still be happy to see you when you get home from work and would still fight with the last of his life to save yours. If your cat were suddenly ten times it's normal size you would be a chew toy the second it got bored or hungry.
"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."
That's the way I see it. Fido might kill you by laying on top of you, kitty claws you cause you move in a way that excites. Fido feels bad, kitty feels bad cause there is no longer a play toy.
Not any more dangerous than shooting bullets out an AK straight up into the air in celebration. Where life is precarious (sometimes literally) some risks just don't stand out against the background. Below the threshold of concern.
Is it a coincidence that news searches on "lockdown" most frequently find stories on prisons and schools?
I would be sure they were well fed before I ventured to pet them. And I might well watch how the guy before me fared. We can, to some degree, make our own luck.
Bring Your Own Beef
If you take the red pill, does Big Pharma still win?
I believe we always do.
My cat is only about 14 pounds and I become his chew toy every time I'm slow to break out the 9 Lives. Actually, I become his chew toy for now reason at all sometimes. At the moment, he's sitting next to me, tapping my shoulder, lobbying for a third can of food. Usually he gives up, but sometimes he escalates.
From what little I understand you choose dogs, cats choose you ((9 Lives helps them choose)
I don't know if I'd be scared or not. Even if I knew they were raised from birth with people, I'd worry they'd sense I'm scared and want to go after me, but they do look so laid back, and very beautiful.
Maine Coon cats are normally kinda placid and fun to have around. This one is cool most of time, then suddenly his wolverine personality kicks in. I have permanent scars from the little ingrate.
If it were my cat, IT would have matching scars....... and more of them. Had that type of problem with a couple of dogs, pretty good sized ones (which is one of the reasons I only keep poodles now).... They learned fast that they can not bite nearly as hard as I can hit. And it was always over food. The last lesson was when I take the food away, and we get along just fine. Or else.
The Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
I have two methods of discipline. One is to throw a comforter over him and watch him try to find his way out. The other is to toss him his food and a can opener and say, "you're so smart, figure this out." Although if I can catch him after being gouged, he gets a good whack on the butt.
Humans and cats are an erratic mix. Big cats seem to be just like small cats in alot of ways, but if they weigh 500 pounds their perspective might change. I find them scary. I have encounterd Grizzly bears in the the wild,(and I don't like them one bit) but the idea of these massive cats running around.... At least the G bears just looked at me and after I backed off they left me alone. A big part of the Assyrian and Akkidan responsibilities was to kill all the Lions they could, quite evidently the big cats were are real problem to the neolithic farming communities
I've had a few encounters with bears, not too close up thankfully. Oddly they strike me as humans wearing fur suits in the way they move and look around. I had one rear up in front of me on a road as I was driving in my car, he then took off and went into the woods. That was pretty neat.
"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."
The college I attended had a tame cougar as a pet. It had been declawed, of course. My girlfriend was part of the Cougar Guard, so she had a key to its cage. We went in once, and since the cat wanted to play, I wrestled with it (like I said, it was tame -- really tame). However, having got it in a full nelson, it decided it didn't like it, broke my hold in a fraction of a second, turned and slapped me hard across the face, and ran a few yards from me. This was a cat that weighed maybe 80 pounds, but was so strong and fast that had it been fully armed, I would not have stood a chance unless at the very least I had a big stout club.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
good kitty ping
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12 KJV
Kitty feels bad at first because there is no longer a play toy - THEN feels quite good because his tummy is no longer growling from hunger, and takes a nap...
No matter how noble the objectives of a government; if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an EVIL government. Eric Hoffer
Kasmir is sitting in sunlit square of our kitchen, yowling at birds and squirels... so cute!
If you look carefully at my lips, you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. I'm not actually telling you about the several ways I'm gradually murdering Joan. - Tom Frost
My cats weigh 22 and 26 lbs each respectively, and if they had an additional 10 lbs on them, they'd be treating me like a chewtoy.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
Better make sure that you've firmly established the pecking order if you get another that size. They might decide 3 to 1 is odds they can live with.
"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
#4. To: orangedog (#3)
If your cat were suddenly ten times it's normal size you would be a chew toy the second it got bored or hungry.
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
#6. To: Tauzero (#5)
#7. To: tom007 (#6)
#8. To: Tauzero (#7)
Bring Your Own Beef
#9. To: orangedog (#3)
If your cat were suddenly ten times it's normal size you would be a chew toy the second it got bored or hungry.
#10. To: Mekons4 (#9)
#11. To: tom007 (#1)
#12. To: tom007 (#10)
#13. To: Mekons4 (#12)
I have permanent scars from the little ingrate.
#14. To: richard9151 (#13)
#15. To: Diana (#11)
#16. To: tom007 (#15)
#17. To: Mekons4 (#9)
At the moment, he's sitting next to me, tapping my shoulder, lobbying for a third can of food. Usually he gives up, but sometimes he escalates.
#18. To: tom007 (#1)
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#19. To: CAPPSMADNESS, Dakmar (#0)
#20. To: tom007 (#4)
Fido feels bad, kitty feels bad cause there is no longer a play toy.
#21. To: robin (#19)
Peter later went to the home of a Gentile, Cornelius, by name, realizing that God is no respector of race, i.e., Gentile vs Jew, i.e., just as he had no need for clean and unclean.
#22. To: orangedog (#3)
#23. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#22)
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